Routledge Advances in Sociology
About the Book Series
This series presents cutting-edge developments and debates within the field of sociology. It provides a broad range of case studies and the latest theoretical perspectives, while covering a variety of topics, theories and issues from around the world. It is not confined to any particular school of thought.
Online Gaming in Context: The social and cultural significance of online games
1st Edition
Edited
By Garry Crawford, Victoria K Gosling, Ben Light
July 26, 2013
There is little question of the social, cultural and economic importance of video games in the world today, with gaming now rivalling the movie and music sectors as a major leisure industry and pastime. The significance of video games within our everyday lives has certainly been increased and ...
Undocumented Workers' Transitions: Legal Status, Migration, and Work in Europe
1st Edition
By Sonia McKay, Eugenia Markova, Anna Paraskevopoulou
June 24, 2013
This book explores how immigration laws, while aimed at discouraging undocumented migration, actually sustain it. It documents the circumstances that have caused previously documented migrants to become undocumented and explores the impact of their changing status on their families and on their own...
Play, Creativity, and Social Movements: If I Can't Dance, It’s Not My Revolution
1st Edition
By Benjamin Shepard
May 23, 2013
As we play, we step away from stark reality to conjure up new possibilities for the present and our common future. Today, a new cohort of social activists are using it to create social change and reinvent democratic social relations. In contrast to work or routine, play must be free. To the extent ...
Globalization and Transformations of Local Socioeconomic Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulrike Schuerkens
March 21, 2013
This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation of socio-economic practices in the global economy. The contributors offer analytical and comparative insights at the world level, with regard to the current socio-economic practices as well as an assessment of the ...
The Institutionalization of Social Welfare: A Study of Medicalizing Management
1st Edition
By Mikael Holmqvist
March 21, 2013
Today most countries rely on formally organized welfare programs - in some cases to the extent that they are labeled "welfare states". These programs, which have been constructed over the last decades, make up a larger national and international system of good intentions. Overall, it appears ...
Eastern European Immigrant Families
1st Edition
By Mihaela Robila
January 11, 2013
Immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States has grown significantly in the last few decades. While Asian and Latin American immigrations have been central to the discourse of migration to the US, the rapid growth of Eastern European immigrants has received insufficient attention. Robila ...
Club Cultures: Boundaries, Identities and Otherness
1st Edition
By Silvia Rief
September 25, 2012
This book explores contemporary club and dance cultures as a manifestation of aesthetic and prosthetic forms of life. Rief addresses the questions of how practices of clubbing help cultivate particular forms of reflexivity and modes of experience, and how these shape new devices for reconfiguring ...
Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity
1st Edition
By Richard Howson
September 18, 2012
In the past twenty years there has been a growing interest in the issues surrounding men and masculinity. Driven primarily by the second-wave feminist critique of the legitimacy or hegemony of masculine practice and culture, the hegemony of men in social spheres such as the family, law, and the ...
Love, Heterosexuality and Society
1st Edition
By Paul Johnson
September 18, 2012
Heterosexuality is a largely ‘silent’ set of practices and identities – it is assumed to be everywhere and yet often remains unnamed and unexplored. Despite recent changes in the theoretical understanding and representation of sexuality, heterosexuality continues to be socially normative. Forging ...
Globalization and Transformations of Social Inequality
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulrike Schuerkens
September 05, 2012
Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon. Globalization has exacerbated and alleviated inequality over the past twenty-five years. This volume offers analytical and comparative insights from current case studies of social inequality in more than ten countries within all the major regions of the ...
The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism
1st Edition
By Kristin Lawler
September 05, 2012
The image of surfing is everywhere in American popular culture – films, novels, television shows, magazines, newspaper articles, music, and especially advertisements. In this book, Kristin Lawler examines the surfer, one of the most significant and enduring archetypes in American popular culture, ...
Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity
1st Edition
By Eduardo de la Fuente
September 05, 2012
In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism, ...